Heith died just a few months into her tenure, prompting Barnum to try and profit off her death by hosting a live autopsy of her corpse. Heith was an elderly, enslaved black woman whom Barnum marketed as George Washington’s 161-year-old nursemaid and brought on tour despite her being in ill-health. For instance, the film completely omits the story of Joice Heith, who was an essential part of Barnum’s early success.
In reality, Barnum was less a charismatic champion of the downtrodden who looks like Hugh Jackman than he was an exploiter of marginalized groups. Barnum and his famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Showman stands as one of the most successful musicals ever made but the real story bears little resemblance to the feel-good tale audiences were presented with. However, Phillips’ first mate Shane Murphy contests this accounting of events and claimed in an October, 2013 interview with Vulture that he was satisfied with how he and Phillips were portrayed in the film.īased on the life of P.T.
claiming that Phillips’ irresponsible behavior and failure to comply with safety protocols contributed to the attack in the first place. In fact, a lawsuit was filed against Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp.
Hanks portrays Phillips as a hero who allows himself to be taken hostage in order to protect his crew, but according to crew members who actually served on the MV Maersk Alabama, their captain was not the selfless leader the movie made him out to be. Take Captain Phillips for instance, a dramatization of the real life story of Captain Richard Phillips and his crew aboard the MV Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa in 2009. Tom Hanks has a habit of playing average men thrust into heroic situations - see Sully later on in this list - but his characters are frequently written in such a way as to make them much more aspirational than their real-life counterparts. In short, Cool Runnings is a total fabrication but it’s also so charming and inspiring that it’s kind of hard to care unless you’re a dedicated bobsledding historian. In reality, they were popular and even borrowed equipment from other teams. There was never a coach named Irving “Irv” Blitzer and the team itself wasn’t comprised of four Jamaican sprinters, but rather army recruits chosen by two Americans, George Finch and William Maloney, who were trying to put together a Jamaican bobsled team.Ī number of smaller changes were made to increase dramatic tension as well, such as the notion that the Jamaicans were outcasts ridiculed by other teams. For one thing, most of the characters we meet are entirely fictional. However, Disney’s dramatization of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team’s Cinderella tale (though perhaps that term is inaccurate given that they placed dead last in competition) runs aground in historical inaccuracies. Released in 1993, Cool Runnings is one of the most popular Olympics movies thanks to its lighthearted tone, inspiring underdog story and of course, John Candy.
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